Kai Ho

Infobox Person
name = Sir Kai Ho


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birth_date = 21 March 1859
birth_place = Hong KongWiltshire, Trea. [First published 1987] (republished & reduced 2003). Old Hong Kong - Volume Two. Central, Hong Kong: Text Form Asia books Ltd. ISBN Volume Two 962-7283-60-6]
death_date = 21 July 1914
death_place = Hong Kong
occupation = Translator, Doctor, Barrister
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spouse = First - Alice Walkden, second - ?
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footnotes =Sir Kai Ho K.T., C.M.G., M.B., C.M., M.R.C.S., J.P. (; Cantonese: Ho⁴ Kai²), MD (1859-1914) was a Chinese essayist, physician, and barrister in Colonial Hong Kong. He played a key role in communicating and working with the British colonial rulers. He is mostly remembered as one of the main supporters and teacher of student Sun Yat-sen. Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, was named after him, and Au Tak.

Early Years

Kai Ho was the forth son of the late Reverand Ho Tsun Shin of the London Missionary Society and brother of Ho Miu-ling. He married Alice Walkden (February 3rd 1852-June 8, 1884) in England (1881) and return to Hong Kong after his studies. Alice gave birth to a daughter, but died in Hong Kong in 1884 and Kai Ho remarried. [ [http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/44/4400834.pdf. Book Review] ]

Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital is named for his wife Alice and sister Miu-Ling.

Career

Young Kai Ho started his career as a supreme court interpreter in the 1860s. In 1871 he traveled to United Kingdom to first study Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, then studied law in London. He returned to Hong Kong in 1877, and began his path of changing the landscape of Hong Kong's colleges and universities. The Chinese culture at the time placed a heavy emphasis on Traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese citizens of the late 19th century had a number of suspicion about Western medicine. Sir Ho not only gained the people's acceptance, but also helped the British make possible a number of health related establishments that otherwise would have been misunderstood by the public. In 1887 the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was opened. He made it an initiative that Chinese doctors too could benefit from an institution that focus on western medicine.

Throughout his life time, he was an advocate supporter for Sun Yat-sen and his revolution to overthrow China's Manchu-led Qing dynasty.

Additional role

He played a number of key roles in critical events in Colonial era Hong Kong:

* Bubonic Epidemic
* Alice Memorial Hospital
* Po Leung Kuk
* Kai Tak Airport
* Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
* Member of the Sanitary Board 1890
* Justice of the Peace

After death

Sir Ho died in 1914 and was buried at Hong Kong Happy Valley Cemetery near his wife Alice.

ee also

*Robert Hotung
*Sir Catchick Paul Chater

References

External links

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/962201/9622018734.HTM The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho]